MEDITATION
"DEVOTION"

GOOD
NEWS

THE whole chebang IN A NUTSHELL

"‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

JESUS the CHRIST

Why Does It Hurt
- depth of being -

"Cogito, ergo sum." Rene Descartes. Awareness. Intelligence. Divinity within.

One might even presume it a privilege - a wellspring - to have or to have had the opportunity to absorb or entertain awareness, intelligence and divinity as the consummate reality of being.

Some might even earn or have earned from such a reality a wondrous responsibility, and by responsibility, herein, not some requisite onerousness, rather a blissful accountability. Gratitude. Joy unspeakable and full of glory! An oooh-wee!

Perhaps, for some, this is not so and cannot be so! Perhaps, of experience, for these good folk there is an inner constraint, or an outer constraint, or an upper constraint, or an inner, outer and upper constraint. Duty bound! Patrolled. Hanging in a balance!

Perhaps there are many remarkable iterations in between!

Might we find some unifying or rectifying wisdom in a bold new vision? Let's see. Shall we? (I think, therefore I am.)

EXPLORE: Sermon on The Mount (the series)

"Encourage one another. Build one another up."

Awesome

Nicolette Sowder

"Give me the wild children with their bare feet and sparkling eyes. The restless, churning climbers. The wild ones using their outside voices, singing all the way home. Give me the wonder-filled, glorious mess makers dreaming of mountains and mud, aching to run through a field of stars."

Isaiah, the Prophet

"Rise up, shine, because your light has come. The glory of Yahweh has risen upon you. Look, darkness has covered the land. Deep darkness covers the people. But Yahweh will rise upon you. His glory will appear over you, and nations will come to your light."

Bishop Gene Robinson

"It's funny isn't it? That you can preach a judgmental and vengeful and angry God and nobody will mind. But you start preaching a God that is too accepting, too loving, too forgiving, too merciful, too kind . . . and you are in trouble."

Desmond Tutu

"You may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.."

Salt of The Soil

SAND is not SALT

Be who YOU are! If you don't like what you are, TRANSFORM

Do what it takes! If you don't like where you're headed, TURN

The BEST you is you. Be you! Don't lose your salt.

Dear God, grant me victory today over all that assails. Help me square up to even the greatest challenges and claim authority over them, unafraid. Amen.

Joshua Dubois
PRAYERS

"It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something."

- John Lewis

EACH DAY an OPPORTUNITY to LEARN

(beyond religiosity, beyond judgment, beyond pretense)

AREN'T SUCH MYSTERIES REVEALING?

Isn't it Good to Grow as YOU GO?